Достижения и награды

1. Instructor pilot of the 1st class of PJSC Sukhoi Company Sukhoi Design Bureau
2. Proxy of the President of the Russian Federation - V.V. Putin
3. Honored Master of Sports of Russia
4. Honored Coach of Russia

Svetlana Kapanina is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most decorated pilot in the World of sports aviation (for reference: Guinness World Records)

February 6, 2015

Svetlana Kapanina became an "Honorary citizen of the Kurgan region"

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By Decree of the Government of the Kurgan region No. 7 dated February 2, 2015 for outstanding services, contributing to the increase of fame and authority of the region, the honorary title of "Honorary Citizen of Kurgan the region" was awarded to Kapanina Svetlana Vladimirovna.
Badge, certificate and Certificate of conferring the title of Honorary Citizen to an outstanding pilot presented by the Governor of the Kurgan region A.G. Kokorin at a solemn meeting dedicated to the 72nd anniversary education of the Kurgan region.

Thank you for the recognition and appreciation of my sporting achievements," Svetlana said in response Kapanina. - I am very pleased to receive such a high award, because it is in Kurgan, on our the trans-Ural land, began to fly. Thanks to everyone who helped me in difficult moments. I will continue to try my best to glorify our small homeland. For me, the Trans-Urals is my flying homeland, here I completed my first independent flight, my first instructors and trainers were here. And what I have in aerobatics is all mine medals and titles are thanks to the Kurgan region," Svetlana noted in her interview with representatives The media.
We sincerely congratulate Svetlana Vladimirovna, a long-time and loyal friend of Kurgan Airport, on the well-deserved A reward!

December 22, 2014

In the Kremlin, the President presented Svetlana Kapanina with the Order of Courage

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The Order of Courage is on the chest of a fragile woman. You wouldn't recognize her in a long dress. The most decorated pilot in the whole history the history of aviation, six-time world champion in aerobatics Svetlana Kapanina came to the award ceremony together with her husband and mother.

"Is it scary in the sky?" - the journalist asked the pilot.

"Only fools don't know fear. Anything can happen," smiled Svetlana Kapanina. "But in general, of course, the sky it attracts. Even here in the Catherine Hall, you raise your head and just fly away, so this dome It's fascinating," she added.

• 7-time Absolute World Champion in aerobatics (1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011 years.);
• 41-time World Champion (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 years.)
• 2-time Absolute Champion of the World Air Games (1997, 2001)
• 8-time World Air Games Champion (1997, 2001)
• 4-time Absolute European Champion (1997, 2006, 2014, 2016)
• 20-time European Champion (1997, 2006, 2014)
• 3-time Absolute Champion of Russia (1991, 2001, 2016)

• 41 gold, 15 silver, 5 bronze medals at the World Championships
• 8 gold, 1 silver medals of the World Air Games
• 20 gold, 7 silver, 6 bronze medals of the European Championships

• The Order of Courage
• The Order of Honor
• Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree;
• FAI nominal medal as the best pilot of the century;
• Gold nominal medal of the FAI named after him. Sabihi Gokcen, as the only multiple Absolute World Champion in higher education aerobatics;
• Medal of the Hero of the USSR Pokryshkin;
• Order of Merit, III degree, ROSTO-DOSAAF;
• Order of Merit, I degree, DOSAAF.

• "Honorary Citizen of the Kurgan region";
• Winner of the National Sports Award "GLORY";
• Winner of the Olympia Public Recognition Award - Outstanding Women of Russia;
• The winner of the Golden Rose Public Recognition Award is the best women in Russia.

1991

• The absolute champion of Russia - 3 gold medals.
• The champion of the USSR.
• Master of Sports of Russia.
• Member of the USSR national team.

1992

• The champion of Russia.
• A member of the Russian national team.

1993

• Silver medalist of the European Championship.
• The champion of Russia.
• Master of sports of international class.

1994

• The champion of Russia.

• World Champion (South Africa). Of the 45 participants: 44 men and one woman.
• Silver medalist of the World Championship in the Absolute championship - 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medals.
• European Championship (Czech Republic) - 1 gold and 3 silver medals.
• Honored Master of Sports of Russia in aerobatics.
• She was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.

• The absolute World champion (USA) - 4 gold medals.
• Honorary citizen of the State of Oklahoma, USA.

• The absolute champion of the First World Air Games (Turkey) - 4 gold medals.
• Absolute European champion (Turkey) - 4 gold medals.
• The absolute champion of England (England) - 5 gold medals.
• Awarded the Paul Tissandier FAI diploma.
• She was awarded the Hero of the USSR Pokryshkin Medal (ROSTO).

• Absolute World Champion (Slovakia) - 4 gold medals and 1 silver.
• A bronze medal in the overall Overall standings with men.

• World Championship (France) - 3 gold and 1 bronze medals.

• Absolute World Champion (Spain) - 4 gold medals.
• Silver medal in the overall Overall standings with men.
• The absolute champion of the Second World Air Games - 4 Gold medals.
• Silver medal in the overall Overall standings with men.
• The absolute champion of Russia - 4 gold medals.

• Honored Coach of Russia.
• She was awarded the "Order of Honor".

• The absolute World Champion (USA) - 3 gold and 2 silver medals.
• 2nd place in the overall Overall standings with men.

• The winner of the Olympia Award is Outstanding Women of Russia.

• Absolute World Champion (Spain) - 4 gold and 1 silver medals.
• She was awarded the FAI medal as the best pilot of the century.

• Absolute European Champion (Switzerland) - 3 gold and 1 silver medals.
• She was awarded the gold nominal medal of the FAI, named after Sabiha Gokcen, as the only five-time Absolute woman
• World champion in aerobatics.

• Absolute World Champion (Spain) - 6 gold medals.
• The winner of the World Cup Grand Prix (stage 25), Zhukovsky, Russia.
• Silver medalist of the World Cup Grand Prix (stage 26), Motegi, Japan.
• Winner of the International competitions "ALL AIN CUP", "Formula JK"
• She was awarded the medal "80th anniversary of OSOAVIAKHIM, DOSAAF, ROSTO".
• She was awarded the Order of Merit of the III degree, ROSTO-DOSAAF.
• She was awarded the medal "80 years of OSOAVIAKHIM (DOSAAF - ROSTO).
• The winner of the National sports Award "GLORY".

• European champion - 1 gold medal.
• Awarded the Cup "The best woman of the European Championship"
• Bronze medalist of the World Cup Grand Prix (stage 27), Motegi, Japan.

• Silver medalist of "World Elite Aerobatic Formula JK", (Constanta, Romania).
• Silver medalist of the World All-around Championship (Silverstone, Great Britain) - one gold and two silver medals.
• In the free skate, he took second place in the overall standings with men.

• Bronze medalist of the European Championship (Tujim, Czech Republic) - 2 gold medals, 1 bronze.

• Absolute World Champion (Foligno, Italy) - 5 gold, 1 silver medals.
• "World air master" - 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medal.
• Bronze medalist of "Elite Aerobatic Formula JK", (Riga, Latvia).

• Bronze medalist of the XVIII European Championship (Dubnica, Slovakia)
• 1st gold, 2nd silver, 1st bronze.
• Bronze medalist of the Aerobatic Freestyle Challenge (Prague, Czech Republic)

• Silver medalist of the World Championship in the Absolute championship (Texas, USA) – 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals.
• The winner of the International competitions "ELITE AEROBATIC MASTER CUP" (Riga, Latvia).
• Russian champion - 1 gold medal.

• Absolute European Champion (Hungary) - 4 gold and 2 silver medals.
• Silver medalist of the Russian Championship - 1 silver medal.
• She was awarded the Order of Courage.

• She was awarded the honorary title of "Honorary Citizen of the Kurgan region".
• 4 silver and one bronze medals were won at the World Championships (France).

• Absolute Champion of the XX European Aeronautical Championship (aerobatics) (Czech Republic):
• 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals in the individual competition.
• Absolute Champion of the XXV Russian Aeronautical Championship (aerobatics):
• 3 gold medals in the individual competition.
• 1 gold medal in the team championship (Moscow) and the passing Cup named after G.G. Korchuganova.

Kapanina is admired, the best male pilots take off their helmets in front of her, the military aces of Japan and Spain, Korea and France, America and the Emirates look at her "work", Svetlana's photos adorn magazine covers, fan clubs are open in many countries. Even such an unemotional Celestial Empire freezes when our Russian "queen of heaven" "dances" at a height to the music of a roaring engine. And back in 1998, in the UK, Svetlana opened an airshow in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Royal Air Force and the Evening Standard newspaper came out the next day with a huge headline "Siberian Angel blesses Biggin Hill." Of course, because today Svetlana Kapanina is the most decorated pilot in the history of world aviation: seven-time absolute world champion in aerobatics and two-time absolute champion of the World Air Games, two-time absolute champion of Europe, multiple absolute champion of Russia. She won 47 gold medals only in the World and World Championships, and, according to the former Head Coach of the National team Kasum Huseynovich Nazhmudinov: a genius came to aviation, and Svetlana has a "safety margin" for another ten years.

Actually, for lesser merits, the Motherland has awarded and is awarding the "Hero of Russia", but... This fragile-looking woman is too categorical, irreconcilable in defending her ideas about truth and lies, good and evil, justice and lawlessness. Especially when it comes to her professional and civic conscience. Many high-ranking functionaries, because of whose laziness and self-interest we have practically lost sports aviation, have been and are getting from Kapanina at every opportunity: whether it is an interview on TV or a personal conversation with top officials of the state.

And where does such irreconcilable "truth-seeking" come from? Where did this daughter of ordinary workers, born in the remote Kazakh town of Shchuchinsk, get such tenacity and self-confidence? Most likely, it is from this "simple" and pure childhood. A short, thin, but always fascinated by something, the girl has always loved cars and speed for as long as she can remember. In the fourth grade, Svetlana begged for a moped, and by the sixth grade she received the title of candidate master of sports in gymnastics. And she also secretly dreamed of the exploits of a special forces soldier, a black belt in karate, and skydiving.

After graduating from medical school in 1987, Kapanina came to Kurgan on assignment, worked in a pharmacy. But is it possible with her character to live in measured silence among test tubes, bottles and pills? Svetlana decided to go to the local aviation club. "Girl, who do you want to sign up for?" - "To the parachutist." - "Let's look at the pilot, it's still more interesting to fly than to jump." Once "more interesting", it means more interesting, and a year later she was already at the helm. Leonid Solodovnikov instilled professional basics in Kapanina, and Nikolai Golubtsov became the first instructor.

...Su-26M3, vertically, soars into the sky and freezes, freezes, and then with zero thrust "slides on the tail" and falls down. Deafening silence and the roar of the engine again: the plane goes into horizontal flight already over the field. And then - turns, loops, barrels, calculated to the nearest degree. It is necessary to perform 12 aerobatics without blemishes. The rules clearly state the boundaries: you can not go below 100 meters and rise above 1100. But under Svetlana's hands, "drying", obeying the steering wheel, does not "perform figures", but dances. From the ground, a heavy aircraft, like a drop of mercury, sparkles and shimmers in the vast expanse. Easy, beautiful. At the same time, the overload for the pilot is "+ 10", that is, the fragile, slender body of the short Svetlana "weighs" more than half a ton! In addition, the Su-26M3 is a production aircraft with a powerful engine, which is made for the usual male height, and in order to reach the control knob, Kapanina has to put pillows on the chair. Vityaz's colleagues joke: you fly "on a feather bed" like a "princess on a pea"." The men laugh, but they help to carry the pillows to the cockpit of the plane.

She's the first one. This is generally accepted. And what, besides technical skill, besides perfected craft, does it take to become the best in the world? Courage? Yes. Prudence? Patience? Too. And there is also the will, which overcomes the pain of tearing vessels during overload. She formulated her innate, natural craving for leadership as follows: "I never intended to be an astronaut, because I don't like standing in line."

She's the best. Member of the Russian national team, instructor pilot of the I class of the Sukhoi Design Bureau aerobatic team, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, Honored Coach of Russia, winner of the Olympia and Slava awards, Lady of the Order of Honor, medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, nominal medal "100 years since the organization of FAI"as the best pilot of the century. By the way, our pilot was awarded this medal together with astronaut Armstrong, the first earthman to set foot on the surface of the Moon.

And Svetlana is also the mother of two wonderful babies. And, of course, she has a sports family. Husband Vladimir Stepanov, the fourth dan in karate, honored coach of Russia and judge of the International category, educates Peresvet and Yesenia in the most Spartan traditions. And it is unlikely that they will be able to avoid creaking exercise machines, muscle pain and overcoming injuries. And the obligatory great victories - because they are the children of the Russian "Queen of Heaven".

Vasily Vladimirovich

Website with the results of the competition - www.civa-results.com

2014, European Championship, Hungary
Women's competition (1st place)
Overall result (11th place)

2013, the 27th World Cup, USA
Women's competition (2nd place)
Team standings (3rd place)